Assertive Quotes - Page 5

• It was not in my nature to be an assertive person. I was used to looking to others for guidance, for influence, sometimes for the most basic cues of life. And yet writing stories is one of the most assertive things a person can do. Fiction is an act of willfulness, a deliberate effort to reconceive, to rearrange, to reconstitute nothing short of reality itself. Even among the most reluctant and doubtful of writers, this willfulness must emerge. Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying, "Listen to me."

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Writing, Mean, Reality

  "Trading Stories". www.newyorker.com. June 13 & 20, 2011.

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• Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

  Bruce Lee

  Effectiveness, Water, Cracks

  "Fear Vs. Faith". Book by Wade Rich, 2012.

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• Successful leadership is not about being tough or soft, sensitive or assertive, but about a set of attributes. First and foremost is character

  Warren G. Bennis

  Moving, Character, Successful

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